Owners of the Promise: Consecrate Your Life to Enter

I believe today that that would be a word for our church and for your life. God has wonders for you this year. I believe that God has miracles for you this year. The life you've dreamed of, the life you've only seen in the prayer room, the life you've only dreamed about happening. God could bring it to pass in 2026, and the call, therefore, is is consecrate your life. [00:41:26] (24 seconds)  #ConsecrateForWonders

Hear it today as a prophetic warning. There are things that matter more in life. There are things that if left up to you have the ability to sap and to destroy the entire work that God would want to do in your life this year. And as a result, God speaks to Israel and says to them, get rid of all of it. Therefore, it be made known among the nation and among the nations to come that the Lord alone is the reason for victory, that the Lord alone is the reason for wealth, that the Lord alone is the reason for prosperity. [00:43:40] (35 seconds)  #LordAloneForVictory

As we begin to read this story, I will give you a warning. This is a hard passage of scripture. It is an aggressive one. I'm thankful we're a part of a church at the father's house that we don't just preach out of parts of the Bible that make us feel good. That's always the easy way out to just tell you you're awesome and tell you life's great and you're not doing anything wrong, but that's not the purpose of the Bible. The purpose of the Bible is to give us an on time, in season word that's prophetic, that has weight into our lives and into our culture. [00:44:15] (33 seconds)  #PropheticWordNow

``every time we gather, it is an opportunity for us to once again return to the Lord. Every time we come to an altar, every time we come to a worship service. My main idea for us today is this, repentance and holiness will allow me to live in the power and the promise of Jesus. I don't want you to visit the promise of Jesus. I don't want you to see the promise of Jesus. I don't want you to hear about the promise of Jesus. I want you to occupy the promise of Jesus in 2026. [00:47:50] (35 seconds)  #OccupyThePromise

The truth that is about cars is also the truth about life. The external can look like it is all together, but if the internal is damaged, a breakdown is inevitable. That seems to be the story in Joshua chapter seven for the nation of Israel. Like I said, there have been miracle after miracle that have gone on. They have crossed miraculously the River Jordan. Cities have been conquered. There is, like I said, a festival, a moment where everyone renews and restores this covenant, and yet there were internal things that had gone on. And because of that, they are not able to stand, and they are not able to fight against their enemies. [00:51:20] (45 seconds)  #HealTheInside

encouragement to our church today is this. There are real enemies that you are going to need to fight to walk into the promise that God has for you this year. And if we do not deal with the devoted things, it doesn't make you a bad person. It doesn't make you an evil person, but you are entering into a fight with your arms tied behind your back. And God speaks to them, says you gotta get rid of these things. There's a real enemy to fight. So the question becomes for us very practically, how do we consecrate the inside of our lives? [00:54:08] (32 seconds)  #ConsecrateYourHeart

What do we do with hard passages of scripture? What do we do with moments in scripture that feel like they're hard for us to wrap our mind around? Well, the first promise that you get to stand upon today is that we are new covenant people. I'm thankful that Jesus took that kind of pain and that kind of punishment upon himself. Therefore, you and I might not have to. [01:00:46] (23 seconds)  #NewCovenantFreedom

You understand something? The only chance that you and I have against fighting sin in our life is to love the promise more than we love the sin. When I first started going to church, I was so frustrated and so intimidated by the pastors because I would look at them, and I assumed that all of them did not struggle with sin in the same way that I did. I was like, oh my gosh. Those guys, those girls, they're perfect. They've got it all figured out. They are not like, woe is me, the heathen that I am. And that became a pastor. [01:03:34] (31 seconds)  #LovePromiseOverSin